"Did they … eat children's hearts?" Medeia asked quietly.
Tian closed his eyes for a moment and nodded. "Yes, they did. Every month, they brought ten children into this room. All of them had to be under thirteen." He paused, then added, "The demons liked warm hearts, the kind that had only stopped beating a few seconds earlier."
To fulfill that cruel desire, the cultists would tear open the children's chests with their bare hands, ripping out their hearts while the children screamed and begged for mercy.
Tian knew all of this because his father forced him to be in the room, asking him to watch it all. Said it was important for him to understand what he would have to do in the future.
But in the end, he became a victim too.
One day, they couldn't find two more children. Normally, they took kids from orphanages, but the police had started getting suspicious, every child they took seemed to die from "illness."
